Archive - Milan Matejka Draws On His Thoughts

Warfare (2025, d. Mendoza & Garland) and the politics of memory

Warfare presents a version of combat shaped not by objective truth, but by the fragmented, contradictory nature of memory, and doing so, it reveals just…

May 15 •

March 2025

Middle Class, British, Art – Making Meaning with Grand Theft Hamlet and This is Martin Parr

What two different documentaries reveal about making meaning in an age where sincerity, openness, and connection feel elusive.

Mar 3 •

February 2025

The Brutalist (d. Corbet, 2024) – The Two-Part American Miserabilist Dream/Nightmare

Ambitious but emotionally distant, The Brutalist explores how trauma and creative genius collide in a world that values success over the soul.

Feb 20 •

October 2024

Megalopolis (d. Coppola, 2024) – The Cornucopia of Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola believes only culture can save the kids!

Oct 11, 2024 •

September 2024

How to sort through the eels in your mind

Or how I made-up a metaphor to figure out where I should go next.

Sep 23, 2024 •

November 2023

Dreaming in different languages – Past Lives and my experience

Reflecting on the past and the future as a British South African, packaged in a film review for art house hit Past Lives.

Nov 16, 2023 •

December 2022

Welcome blog and A Teddy's Choice

A Christmas Fable

Dec 17, 2022 •

November 2022

This is Milan Matejka Draws On His Thoughts, a newsletter about Film.

Nov 25, 2022 •

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